Mississippi Attorney General Pushes Circuit Court to Close the State's Last Clinic

Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood is asking the full US Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to reverse a panel decision that upheld a preliminary injunction of Mississippi's TRAP law, allowing the state's only abortion clinic to remain open.

Just weeks ago, a panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a preliminary injunction barring implementation of HB 1390, Mississippi's 2012 TRAP (Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers) law that requires doctors to gain admitting privileges from an area hospital. Because HB 1390 would have effectively shut down the Jackson Women's Health Organization (JWHO), the last abortion clinic in the state, the Court ruled that the law placed an "undue burden on the exercise of the constitutional right" of an individual to choose an abortion.

"Mississippi may not shift its obligation to respect the established constitutional rights of its citizens to another state." the Fifth Circuit panel said. "Such a proposal would not only place an undue burden on the exercise of the constitutional right, but would also disregard a state's obligation under the principle of federalism - applicable to all fifty states - to accept the burden of the non-delegable duty of protecting the established federal constitutional rights of its own citizens."

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